Part IV of my series "How to Think Like a VC" is live.

This chapter is about the parts of entrepreneurship that never get mythologized: the false starts, pivots, reboots, ignored years, and “failures” that precede outliers.

Venture capital rewards pattern recognition — and pattern recognition comes from knowing the histories of the people who built what came before us.

less than a quarter of my way through "apple in china" and it's already the best, most insightful book about apple i've read potentially every, holy cow

The most important life skill I continuously work on is one few people are aware even exists. Most of the time I forget about it too.

And every time I remember is an opportunity to practice.

How many of the choices you make on a daily basis are you actually aware of?

nmoryl.com/one-wild-and...

I’ve been helping some founders (and investors) do reference checks on key hires/investments recently and it smacked me in the face how dramatically unhelpful conventional wisdom is on how to do them.

I've been thinking a ton about how my mindset creates my reality. I was a history major in college and one of the things that's impossible to ignore is how so many "great person" history books make it seem like their subject's success is almost inevitable.

Finding an amazing romantic partner has been the single highest leverage thing I’ve done in my life and has accelerated my career more than anything else in the last decade.

5y ago I was mired in mediocre relationships, a prison of my own making.

Here's how I fixed it: nmoryl.com/the-founders...

There are so many people and companies who are bad at handling employee terminations.

Bad terminations betray weak, fearful leadership.

Here's how you do terminations better and emerge a stronger, more inspiring leader in the process.
nmoryl.com/how-to-fire-...

i read 53 books last year. here are the 6 best.
1. 7 rules of power (jeffrey pfeffer)
2. the nvidia way (tae kim)
3. ultra-processed people (chris van tulleken)
4. steve jobs and the NeXT big thing (randall stross)
5. to be a man (robert masters)
6. the big leap (gay hendricks)

the 12 things that upgraded my life the most in 2024. 6 products, 6 behaviors/lifestyle adjustments/behaviors. nmoryl.com/12-biggest-l...

It's been almost 7 years since Teespring got recapped, but I keep coming back to it for all I learned from the experience. So I wrote about it so everyone else can benefit. nmoryl.com/6-lessons-fr...

I hated new year's resolutions until I realized I was doing it all wrong. So I wrote about how focusing on how I wanted to feel instead of what I wanted to do completely changed how effective they are for me: link.medium.com/xKfzPbaARPb

My Hundred-Million Dollar Ritual: How one cappuccino a week turned into nine figures of value, and an essential tool in my startup advisory practice. nmoryl.com/my-hundred-m...

3 lessons from 127 venture capital rejections. Plus one meta-lesson about life. nmoryl.com/three-lesson...

A shocking number of people labor under the misguided notion that if things look shabby, they are cheap, while if things look new or nice, they must be expensive.

Forward, a company I previously worked on, is shutting down. I have a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for the people who worked there. I wish this wasn't the result, but I'm also excited to see what they all do next. link.medium.com/DAKQr5pBwOb

today in "the most entertaining outcome is the most likely": theonion.com/heres-why-i-...

trying this out and it’s actually really hard to find good content? that needs to be fixed